Listener comments!

Wed. 10/1/08 3:11pm From: Sean Daily

First comment! Woo hoo!

Wed. 10/1/08 3:15pm From: Graeme

I like this Scala and Kolacny Brothers CD but I was disappointed that they didnt do Status Quo's ' Paper Plane',

Wed. 10/1/08 3:18pm From: Sean Daily

How is the two different, Graeme?

Wed. 10/1/08 3:18pm From: Sean Daily

Or "are", ee-vun...

Wed. 10/1/08 3:19pm From: stingy d

kites are fuuunnnnnn
butterflies are frreeeee

Wed. 10/1/08 3:22pm From: AnAnonymousParty

Suddenly I feel like running through sunlit fields, wind breezing past me when a butterfly flies into my mouth and gets stuck in my throat and then I choke to death, all alone

Wed. 10/1/08 3:23pm From: Graeme

Hi Sean...well one ' stands for the light, pure and diaphanous angel voices soaring above Scala’s audience like a paper plane. The lead track itself expresses unconditional faith in life and love' and the other is a cock -rocking rifferama from denim clad Brit beat combo Status Quo.

Wed. 10/1/08 3:24pm From: oatman

one of my favorite free design songs. right up there with 'an elegy' - 'kites are fun' - 'bubbles' and 'i found love'

Wed. 10/1/08 3:26pm From: Sean Daily

So, Graeme, in other words, not much difference.

Wed. 10/1/08 3:27pm From: Sean Daily

Kenny G... gotta love him or gotta stuff him into the incinerator in little chopped-up pieces. Not much grey area there...

Wed. 10/1/08 3:28pm From: Parq

Speaking of Vice Presidents, Dan Quayle was a professed Free Design fan. He would heatedly point this out while decrying the strident, noisy hard rock that all the liberals preferred.

Wed. 10/1/08 3:28pm From: Bad Ronald

Yeah kinda like speedos

Wed. 10/1/08 3:34pm From: stingy d

irwin you got anythin by the cherry sisters?

Wed. 10/1/08 3:38pm From: plinky

hey dudes.

Wed. 10/1/08 3:42pm From: Parq

Man, that Coltrane was nice.

Wed. 10/1/08 3:50pm From: Plinky

Bad ronald good tv movie!

Wed. 10/1/08 3:52pm From: Dead Corporate Eyes

Don't do this, Irwin.

Wed. 10/1/08 3:52pm From: Hank

Tony Sheridan was in Loafstäler with Billy Preston.

Wed. 10/1/08 3:52pm From: north guinea hills

wow, i've never heard this pat boone album. 'bout time!

Wed. 10/1/08 3:54pm From: Parq

{stunned silence}

Wed. 10/1/08 3:55pm From: ?

pretty funny that those pompous, self-important metallica dudes are getting shown up so handily by . . . PAT BOONE!

Wed. 10/1/08 3:55pm From: Plinky

WTFfff

Wed. 10/1/08 3:56pm From: Sean Daily

Yeah, kinda appropriate that Pat Boone's covering "Enter Sandman". I think Metallica earned that one.

Wed. 10/1/08 3:56pm From: Dead Corporate Eyes

phew...that's better.

Wed. 10/1/08 3:57pm From: Harvey

This bassline is very similar to "Then He Kissed Me" by The Crystals

Wed. 10/1/08 3:59pm From: oatman

on the first second or two when the song started i thought it was the crystals.

Wed. 10/1/08 4:00pm From: mummybreath

Stephen Merritt uses that bassline a lot on his earlier stuff. It reminds me of a song off of 'Charm of the Highway Strip'

Wed. 10/1/08 4:02pm From: another old man

or every tv theme by Vic Mizzy

Wed. 10/1/08 4:08pm From: Sean Daily

Gee, Irwin, you make that beer sound SO tasty...

Wed. 10/1/08 4:12pm From: stingy d

HARVEY SID FISHER!!! aw man this one of my favorties!

Wed. 10/1/08 4:18pm From: Sean Daily

I'M WAITING ON TENTERHOOKS, IRWIN!

I'm waiting for you to tell me what tenterhooks are!

Wed. 10/1/08 4:26pm From: C

I just came across an incedible flautist from the 1980's named Sarah Heath. Anyone heard of her?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvp7woNA9gw

Wed. 10/1/08 4:28pm From: St. Even Denver

Thanks for the Prine!!!

Wed. 10/1/08 4:31pm From: Graeme

that reminds me .. must get some Maxell blank cassettes tomorrow.

Wed. 10/1/08 4:36pm From: Dead Corporate Eyes

someone else out there uses cassettes too? I feel community! and Broadcast rules.

Wed. 10/1/08 4:37pm From: stingy d

i use cassettes! can only find them in grocery stores nowadays though.

Wed. 10/1/08 4:39pm From: Graeme

I'm still clinging on ...and Peter Murphy used to advertise Maxell here in the UK. Best ever Police song this...

Wed. 10/1/08 4:41pm From: g

a couple of years ago I used to go to the wholesalers in the mid-twenties from Broadway over to 7th ave in NYC to get cassettes cheaply in bulk (don't know if they still sell 'em)

Wed. 10/1/08 4:42pm From: north guinea hills

when i first started to date my gf, i made a mixtape and wrapped it in a walkman so she could listen to it.....

Wed. 10/1/08 4:46pm From: g

hey, when does cassette nostalgia hipsterism start?

Wed. 10/1/08 4:50pm From: Graeme

It started with that Pete Murphy track - official.

Wed. 10/1/08 4:53pm From: BZ

It's the Roses

Wed. 10/1/08 4:54pm From: bzul

Lingering devotion or cool renewed inclination toward cassette recordings might be hisssssterism, no?

Wed. 10/1/08 4:54pm From: Dead Corporate Eyes

some of the experimental bands in my hometown are doing cassette-only very limited editions these days. too hipsterish for me.

Wed. 10/1/08 4:59pm From: Toledo Tom

Cassette nostalgia started with the first release of TG's 24 hours live.

Wed. 10/1/08 5:01pm From: jan

Irwin: Gute Yontif! enjoying your show.

Wed. 10/1/08 5:02pm From: north guinea hills

well, considering i've been making mixtapes since the the early 90's and i still buy cassettes at truck stops and shows and the hundreds i have in my cassette cabinet, i would say it never went away.....

Wed. 10/1/08 5:03pm From: Lizardner Dave

I never liked pre-recorded cassettes. Didn't understand paying extra for 'em when you could just buy the vinyl and tape a copy for the car or walkman or whatever.

Wed. 10/1/08 5:05pm From: C

I've already rewound the stream to hear "Mama Get the Hammer". What a song!

Wed. 10/1/08 5:07pm From: stingy d

what splaying beihind you, i like that!

Wed. 10/1/08 5:08pm From: Parq

FMU has blogged cassette nostsalgia at least once, probably more than once. If I can find anything by searching the blog, I'll let yis know.

Wed. 10/1/08 5:09pm From: Harvey

I've spent years trying to play like Bix. A legend.

Wed. 10/1/08 5:10pm From: Harvey

PS I thought is was "birdman"?

Wed. 10/1/08 5:11pm From: north guinea hills

master recorded cassettes sound better then home recorded cassettes from a cd or record (but not better then the the cd or vinyl themselves). on the other hand, i never understood why cassettes were still $10 (or more, [not blanks]) until about 2000. i used to buy cassettes b/c i didn't care about sound quality in high school w/ my shitty stereo, later, i would usually only buy cassettes if i couldn't find said album anywhere else, if it was cassette only, or if it was damn cheap.

Wed. 10/1/08 5:11pm From: Parq

Ah yes, here we are.

http://tinyurl.com/4gnw77

Wed. 10/1/08 5:16pm From: St.Even Denver

Ah.coldplay. now i have a soundtrack to buy allergy medicine and other products to...

Wed. 10/1/08 5:17pm From: gumby

nice tunies as always Irwin. I don't get to hear Bix & The Hold Steady in the same vicinity often enough.

Wed. 10/1/08 5:17pm From: plinky

lol

Wed. 10/1/08 5:21pm From: jan

I was making mix cassette tapes for years, and only stopped about two years after getting an Ipod in 2004. The Ipod just broke, and I have been listening to the old cassette mixes. recording analog allows
the mixer to think about what to play next while the current cut finishes recording. I find it hard to make iPod play lists. Just haven't done it. Burning CDs are also difficult. Making tape mixes is organic .

Wed. 10/1/08 5:24pm From: St.Even

Check out Cassette Mythos, a compelling compendium by Robin James.Seriously changed my life.

Wed. 10/1/08 5:26pm From: Sean Daily

Cas-settes? What are these... "cassettes" you speak of, stranger? ;)

Wed. 10/1/08 5:29pm From: Sara

And lest we forget: the most fine cassettefrommyex.com

Wed. 10/1/08 5:31pm From: Ike

Cassettes always sounded better than vinyl on an affordable turntable. A good turntable costs too much. With cassettes and CDs and MP3s, you don't have to constantly brush the damn things or fix the freakin' needle, or spend tons of money on the player.

My car still has a cassette player, so I still use my old cassettes in it, but I don't make new ones. Kinda miss it.

Wed. 10/1/08 5:32pm From: Bad Ronald

I only do 8 Tracks.

Wed. 10/1/08 5:34pm From: Ike

I love Siouxsie & the Banshees. They (with Stump) flung me out of bland top-40 land and into the universe of the odd.

Wed. 10/1/08 5:36pm From: Mike B.

Cassettes indeed. Hiss is bliss!

Wed. 10/1/08 5:36pm From: St.Even

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=65891235&blogID=437551281

Wed. 10/1/08 5:41pm From: north guinea hills

although, b/c FSA always would put "cd's detroy music" on all of their records & cd's i would purposely buy their cd's.....

Wed. 10/1/08 5:43pm From: jan

My understanding is that the prerecorded tape industry would use high speed duplication for production of the cassettes and that would have inferior sound to tapes made at real time speed from vinyl. Also the tape
used by for prerecorded was inferior as are the cassette cases.I never bought prerecorded cassettes.
Don't get all fetishistic about high end turntables. You can get a vintage AR XA on ebay. the high end turntables are far better equipment
than that which produced records to begin with.

Wed. 10/1/08 5:51pm From: Parq

I bought major-label cassettes for a while coz I couldn't forgive CDs for killing LPs. Finally caved in the late 90s. Agree about cste. mixes being "organic", plus when you do a CD mix or an ITunes playlist, it's impossible to keep the volume levels uniform or get well-timed, gapless segues. But I'm too lazy to make cassette mixes now.

Wed. 10/1/08 5:52pm From: Parq

Irwin, more country would be just fine with me.

Wed. 10/1/08 5:58pm From: Sean Daily

I, for one, could do with some Johnny Cash or Woody Guthrie right about now... Or here's one you might like, Irwin: Chris Cagle's "Cos the Chicks Dig It".

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